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I suppose writing is revising and editing and hoping you know just when to stop. It's always serious work for me, it just happens to be work whose reward is worth staying with the trouble for.

— Tjawangwa Dema

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More quotes by Tjawangwa Dema

"This process of refining is everything is the goal is to write a good (read necessary, urgent) poem".

"I remember seeing the sky as it scrunched its face, filling its cheeks with smoke hurling rage at every mans' door".

"Here is a line between mana and man
and nature
man-made
as all false boundaries are".

"My clay begins elesewhere where Okavango pours into Boteti & re appears here to watch this other water from a distance".

"When my chapbook, Mandible, got published I don't believe I thought about curation very much".

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